Senior Design Manager - Jersey - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract / Secondment

We are looking for an experienced senior designer/ design manager to join our Womenswear design team for a maternity cover fixed term contract role on womenswear Jersey reporting into the head of design.

Experience working on jersey in high street brands or suppliers producing for the high street is essential. We are looking for someone with a great eye for detail and a strong creative handwriting, with a proven track record of developing commercially successful product.

You will be a strong influencer and be great at taking team members and managers with you on the creative journey. Having a clear and logical approach to moving forward the department’s creative strategy with seasonal presentations to key stakeholders.

You will be responsible for:

Spotting the latest trends, communicating them with confidence and clarity to the design and buying teams along with any key leadership stakeholders, and translating these into commercial designs that our customers will love.
Setting the direction for your department and working closely the wider design and buying teams to create cohesive trend coordination’s
Working closely with your Design, Buying, Merchandising and Technical colleagues to ensure ranges are commercial and balanced.
Compiling accurate technical brief packs and working closely with your suppliers to achieve “first sample, right sample”.
Understanding best and worst lines to influence seasonal strategy and product opportunities.
Pushing design constraints of costings and fashion ability forward, whilst problem-solving.
Owning the design critical path and supporting trend, development and production critical paths to ensure business deadlines are met.

You will need:

Proficiency in designing using Adobe illustrator & Photoshop. Powerpoint and AI software experience is a bonus.
Comprehensive understanding of garment construction, fabric & printing techniques.
The ability to created detailed technical brief sheets with excellent attention to detail, to communicate your design vision clearly to your team & supply base.
A team player with great interpersonal and communication skills, ability to build strong relationships with colleagues and to be able to collaborate.
Amazing organisational skills. Ability to prioritise and work in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to manage the whole design and development process from trend research and sample development through to range-building and fits.
Proven previous experience designing Ladies dresses for the UK market.
Excellent commercial and market awareness and innovative thinking in research.
Proven experience producing new and innovative designs to fast-paced deadlines, with a strong hit rate.

What's in it for you:

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Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility